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Wanderer Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 68

Hello everyone,

Simple problem. I have an alarm, and I want to change the time until it goes off. Or, more specifically, add to it. Here's what I came up with based on the documentation, but it doesn't seem to be working:

GURU Joined: 23 Dec 2000 Posts: 4834 Location: USA

I think you may have to surround the expression (%alarm()+4000) in an %eval().

Is it a simple alarm as far as the code it executes? You could achieve the same effect using the #ALARM command, but that requires you also include such code. As long as the alarm has an id associated with it the new #ALARM will simply replace the old one rather than creating a second alarm.

Wanderer Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 68

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:38 am

You have a space there you shouldn't have, after the %alarm. Even without it, it still won't work.

This is actually really bizarre. I tried creating a variable containing the time:

#math NewAlarm %alarm(testalarm)+4000
#call %alarm(testalarm,@NewAlarm)

but even that didn't work. Even weirder, I put a static value into @NewAlarm and tried doing this:

#call %alarm(testalarm,@NewAlarm)
#show %alarm(testalarm)

and it didn't return the value of @NewAlarm - it returned the maximum value that %alarm could have (I was using a 30 second alarm - it returned 30000). All it was doing was resetting the alarm, not changing the value.

EDIT: If it's any consolation, this:

#call %alarm(testalarm,%alarm(testalarm)+4000)

works in CMUD.

Wanderer Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 68

Hmm. The original code didn't have any spaces, those only appeared after I saved (don't ask me why). Though the zscript syntax is a pretty bizarre thing in itself.

Thanks to both of you for making an effort, though. :-)